Azure Weekly
Issue #52 - 14th November 2015
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Microsoft's involvement with open source stepped up again this week, as Microsoft and Red Hat announced a partnership. The partnership aims to provide Red Hat solutions natively on Azure, integrated enterprise support spanning hybrid environments, collaboration on .NET, and unified workload management across hybrid cloud deployments.
The Azure ecosystem also widened to include a mariaDB Enterprise Cluster, and a preview of 'Pivotal Cloud Foundry', while Cloud Foundry on Azure became generally available.
There's been a flurry of Azure SQL announcements: transactional Replication to Azure SQL, elastic Database Transactions, InMemory OLTP and RealTime Operational Analytics are now in preview, and dynamic Data Masking is now generally available.
Azure DocumentDB continues its onward march, and is now available in South Central US.
⚖️ Management and Governance
Rik Hepworth explains how to convert new VMs dynamic IP address to static with Azure Resource Templates, and writes about using References and Outputs in Azure Resource Templates, using Objects in Azure Resource Templates, useful links from The ART of Modern Azure Deployments and optimising IaaS deployments in Azure Resource Templates
- Also on MSDN, Igor Pagliai talks about Azure VM Resizing and SKU Change in ASM and ARM
- Also on MSDN, Theresa Palmer explains how to explore your Application Insights data with Power BI
Also on TechNet, Microsoft Server And Cloud Platform Team write part 7 of their Microsoft loves Linux deep dive, covering managing Linux in System Center Virtual Machine Manager
- Also on TechNet, John Mccabe explains how to deploy a VM with Azure PowerShell Preview 1.0 Cmdlets
Also on TechNet, 'Gkaleta' talks about using Azure Billing to create a quick, easy and detailed overview of what Azure services you are paying for
On Channel 9, Haishi Bai, Chris Risner and Guy Bowerman (@gbowerman) discuss Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Clemens Reijnen (@ClemensReijnen) writes about an update to the Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise Symbol Set
- On the Daily Dot Net Tips blog, Abhijit Jana describes searching Application Insights Data inside Visual Studio 2015
'Adminian' writes about The Azure Rest API, or Rather Resource Management API and describes how to deploy to Azure Resource Groups using the SDK
Radu Vunvulea writes about what should I do if I suspect that one of Azure Services is not available or there is a quality degradation
🖥️ Compute
On the Azure blog, Paige Liu announces mariaDB Enterprise Cluster on Azure
Also on the Azure blog, Ning Kuang announces the general availability of Cloud Foundry and preview access of Pivotal Cloud Foundry
On the Microsoft Openness site, Mark Hill writes about Red Hat and Microsoft's partnership
On Channel 9, Tuesdays with Corey covers Dev Test labs from Azure Con
Radu Vunvulea writes 'what should I do when an Azure Web Role gets HTTP Error 401.2 Unauthorized'
On Code Project, 'Mukeshkumar89' writes how to create a Virtual Machine in Windows Azure - step by step
On MSDN, Koushik Biswas describes mySQL Cluster IaaS best practices for Azure High Availibility, Fault Tolerance, Scalability
Also on MSDN, 'Muthukumaran ' describes prerequisites for using Azure VMs in WinRM based Tasks in Build and Release management workflows
On the WindowsITPro site, Rod Trent covers Microsoft and Red Hat's partnership
🌐 Networking
On TechNet, Pierre Roman talks about instance Level Public IP addresses in Azure
💡 Internet of Things
- On the Falafel blog, Venkata Koppaka writes about remote Debugging Azure Websites
Also on the Falafel blog, Adam Anderson writes part 3 of his Azure Mobile Apps series, covering writing a Fast Custom DomainManager
On MSDN, Benjamin Perkins discusses how to auto heal your Azure Web App
Also on MSDN, 'Shamlia' shares a demo on ioT for Cars Connected Cars and Virtual Radars
On Code Project, 'Joaosousa23' writes about remote Debbuging Microsoft Azure and explains how to Publish ASP.NET MVC Web Applications to Azure
Also on Code Project, 'Neohuman Software' writes about how to use ASP.NET Identity using Azure Storage Table
On the Daily Dot Net Tips blog, Abhijit Jana discusses using Application Insights for your Android App with Visual Studio 2015 and describes how to trace your Application Insights events inside Visual Studio Diagnostic tools
Robert Smit (@Clustermvp) discusses using Solaredge in Azure IoT Suite to monitor your solar panels
On Channel 9, Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) and Brady Gaster present inside Web APIs and Customizing Swagger
Also on Channel 9, Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) and Guang Yang discuss adding authentication to Azure API Apps
⚙️ Data and Analytics
On the Azure podcast, episode 101 is about Azure Data Lake
On the Azure blog, Ronit Reger announces that dynamic Data Masking is now generally available for Azure SQL Database
On the Azure blog, Jean-Yves (JY) Devant announces that transactional Replication to Azure SQL DB is now in public preview
Also on the Azure blog, Torsten Grabs announces the preview of elastic database transactions in Azure SQL Database
Also on the Azure blog, Han Wong announces that Azure DocumentDB is now available in South Central US
Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) writes about Using Redis as a Service in Azure to speed up applications
On the Database Journal site, Marcin Policht writes about Azure SQL Database Transparent Data Encryption
On Code Project, 'Mukeshkumar89' describes how to Create and Connect SQL Server and Database on Windows Azure
On MSDN, 'Brimit' covers realtime prediction in the next in their end to end demo series on Event Hubs / Stream Analytics / AzureML / PowerBI
- On the Falafel blog, George Saadeh describes Using Azure DocumentDB with Cordova Tools in Visual Studio or any JS client
- On MSDN, Mvp Award Program covers rethinking SharePoint Project Cost Estimation with Azure Machine Learning
Also on MSDN, Joseph Idziorek blogs about Azure SQL Database: 0xDBE Database IDE on Mac OS X
Also on MSDN, Ray Fleming writes about how to stop parents or students block your parking bays with Azure ML
- Also on MSDN, Adarsha Datta (@AdarshaDatta) covers DocumentDB: The move towards NOSQL - Part 1
On TechNet, the ML Blog Team talk about Using Azure ML to Build Clickthrough Prediction Models and transforming Businesses Through the Power of Analytics
On Channel 9's Data Exposed, Scott Klein describes Azure Data Lake Jobs: Making Big Data Easy
📦 Storage
None this week.
🎬 Media
On MSDN, David Bristol describes how to list more than 1000 assets with the PHP SDK for Azure Media Services
⚙️ Hybrid Integration
On TechNet, Steefjan Wiggers writes about The Microsoft Integration Stack Today
⚙️ Identity and Access Management
- On MSDN, Jack Richins discusses Azure Key Vault Integration for Azure SQL Server VMs
- On TechNet, 'Alexsimonsms' covers Azure AD OneClick SSO configuration for Google Apps - It doesnt get any simpler and writes A look inside AzureAD B2C with Kim Cameron
Also on TechNet, Samuel Devasahayam writes that Azure AD Connect Health for sync is now in Public Preview
On the WindowsITPro site, John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) discusses ports used by DirSync for Azure AD and what attributes are synced to Azure AD